Patti Page was an emblematic voice of 1950s pop music and was one of the first pop artists to cross over to the country charts.

Ms. Page, who died Jan. 1 at age 85, was sometimes billed as “That singing rage, Patti Page,” and she spent months on the charts with songs like “The Tennessee Waltz” and “(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window?”

She recorded 100 albums and sold over 100 million records around the world. Her bright voice was so redolent of America that Mao Zedong once condemned her version of “The Tennessee Waltz” as “reactionary propaganda.”

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